keep it dean from weeds. Both parcels look well, 

 and begin to ftioot into ftems. Not a plant appears 

 to have been hurt by the hard frolls of the laft 

 winter. 



Whether we fhall cultivate winter or fpring wheat) 

 or both, I prefume no farmer will remain unconvinc- 

 ed, that it will be not only compatible with the con- 

 tinuance of our Indian corn crops, but that the latter 

 are the bed preparative for the former. There is 

 certainly much labour in dunging and planting in 

 holes for Indian corn ; and fo there is equally for 

 potatoes. In Great-Britain and Ireland, they per- 

 form an equally hard talk, for potatoes ; they plant 

 them in continued rows, not more than three feet 

 apart ; and place the manure in the whole length of 

 the furrow opened for its reception. So likewife in 

 England and Scotland, the farmers who grow the 

 large quantities of mangel wurtzel and Swedifli tur* 

 nips before mentioned, fow the feeds in drills, under 

 which, in furrows opened for the purpofe, the ma- 

 nure has previoully been ftrewed. And thefe rows 

 are only twenty-feven inches afunder ; a diftance at 

 which they find the greateft crops are attained. This 

 laborious diflribution of the manure, precifely under 

 the rows of the plants to be grown, would feem to 

 be the refult of their experience, or general opinion, 

 of its greater economy, in the application of that ef- 

 fential fubftance. And here I may remark, that on 

 the principle firft difcuffed, refpefting manure, this 

 economical pradice of the Britifh farmers would 

 feem to be well founded. For the effence of manure, 

 combined with the water in the earth, which the 

 fun's heat and the air are continually exhaling and 

 attracting, cannot fail, in its afcent, to meet more of 

 the roots of plants to fuck it in, than if the manure 



